What's Your Opinion Of Chris Eubank Snr?

Never seen a better chin.

His TV deals at the time were off the page. There was a lot of outrage regarding how much he was paid, especially in Boxing News and Fleet Street. But he brought in the viewing figures (14-15M 4-5x a year) so how really could you argue and when considering how much fighters like Mayweather made on PPV and how much they make today with it the arguments look a bit silly now.

There’s no doubt Eubank completely changed the face of boxing. He taught boxers that they were not slaves to managers, promoters and TV executives. He gave them a voice.

 

Nobody cared at the time for him fighting Michael Nunn. Everyone wanted him to face Nigel Benn. So it’s confusing really when there’s revisionist rewrites - nobody was calling for Eubank to face those US belt holders at the time, and indeed Bob Arum stated he’d never let Eubank face one of his fighters because he had too much of an awkward style to make them look bad (Nunn, Toney, a young Jones) when he was trying to build his TVKO platform.

 

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Toney had the superior chin.

 

Wouldn’t go that far. The shots Eubank took from Carl Thompson when his left eye was completely closed takes him to Mars or another Milky Way - he couldn’t see the right hand coming at all so couldn’t brace himself, and those were the same shots that knocked out 215+ pounders like Rothmann flat out. Thompson was a 215+ pounder because he had Billy Graham, who had bodybuilder friends who had Ricky Hatton come in at 160+.

About a dozen KO rights flush Eubank soaked up from Thompson with his left eye blinded. Very very scary. He wasn’t as big a guy as Toney frame-wise. Toney had not an ounce of muscle when killing himself to make 168 - he was a 220lb quarterback in high school!

And Eubank was a clean athlete. He wasn’t using the neck harness with weights along with anabolic steroid stacks.

 

Mm- I mean I see where you are coming from but chin for chin Toney ate shots from truly heavy handed HWs as a shell.

 

A shell? He was an elite performance enhanced 230+lb athlete in his 30s with now a 20+ins neck.

 

"Simply Alright" didn't sell the same tickets

 

He didn’t call himself that. Susan Hearn labelled it to him after D-arkie Smith suggested using the Tina Turner song for the fight with Cronin.

 

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This fight started it all in many ways. Matchroom ran with the panto villain/away fighter thing after.

Eubank was just the guy doing the fighting/winning.

 

Honestly it's so hard to say.

His resume is awful and his willingness to fight the best is zero.

But I'll always have a soft spot for Eubank and I find it hard to imagine someone beating him at his best.

 

‘Eubank could have made so much more of himself. I’m telling Naz he has the tools to be greater than Muhammad Ali, like Eubank could’ve been. I’m telling Naseem it’s in his hands.’

-George Foreman

 

Does Chris pay you?

 

Just pointing out the facts. We all know the story, about Trevor East (head of ITV) being in the crowd when Eubank faced Cronin, for no reason other than an evening with his pals, and signing Eubank to ITV right after.

 

He was pretty darn good to be honest.

He could box, he could punch, and he had a chin like an anvil.

I never got my head round the man, either during or after his boxing career, but the man could fight!